Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy

Globalization, Information, and Peace

Globalization is often seen as consisting of economic virtues and political vices. I provide a more optimistic interpretation of the effects of economic integration on international politics, arguing that autonomous global markets help to promote world peace. I use game theory to show that the claims of competing states can be made more credible by investors able to re-allocate capital across n...

Managing dynamic global sourcing relationships through knowledge governance Keywords: Sourcing, Knowledge governance, Globalization, Relationships

The paper will discuss managerial knowledge challenges in global sourcing relationships faced by two small and medium enterprises (SMEs) competing in a highly globalized industry (textiles). Each company has changed its global sourcing setup due to the continuing globalization of their manufacturing and distribution activities; and in this process have experienced how the relational set-up in t...

Hyperincursion and the Globalization of the Knowledge-Based Economy

In biological systems, the capacity of anticipation—that is, entertaining a model of the system within the system—can be considered as naturally given. Human languages enable psychological systems to construct and exchange mental models of themselves and their environments reflexively, that is, provide meaning to the events. At the level of the social system expectations can further be codified...

Globalization and the German Economy

Liberalization of markets is the most important prerequisite for the process of Globalisation. In fact, liberalization has the capacity to increase countries wealth more than development aid. Once developing countries like SouthKorea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong for example became the so-called economically successful Asian “Tiger states” of the 1980s. In Europe, Ireland is a similar exampl...

Gender equality, good governance, and peace